History Road Freight

In today’s world road freight transport plays an important role in the development of foreign economic and trade relations. The lion’s share of transportation in the country and impressive part of international traffic carried by it. Medicines and fuel, equipment and food, furniture and raw foods – not the whole list of goods that are amenable to road transport. And if the media adequately and accurately clarified the question of progress passenger road transport, the theme of the history of road transport of goods is not so common. Therefore, today’s press release is dedicated to the history of the truck.
Initially, the development of commercial vehicles were braked a little imperfection of a design and a small reliability. And if the existing structure was enough for lovers of novelty, shipping demanded much more. It was only after an opportunity to improve the reliability grips truck. Thus, the goods are transported by cars, in which the body has been replaced by a passenger van or box truck. This car has the basic properties of the passenger model. Increased passenger compartment was small and not suitable for the transport of goods, so the ancestor of the truck was hard to compete with cartage. The situation has changed somewhat in the early twentieth century, when the designers left in the truck of a car engine. Trucks were given much greater area of the cargo compartment, solid tire rubber and a high ratio of the mass of the load to the total weight of the structure.
The history of the truck is started in one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, when two engineers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach designed a motorized cart, and already in 1896, Daimler presented his creation to the public. On the first car Daimler is little known. So, there was 4 models: 1.5 t; 2.5 tons; 3,75t and 5t. The machine is controlled by a wheel connected to a chain to the front axle. Remarkably, the car had already Daimler foot brake acting on the drive train. The main part (body) is preferably were wooden. No drawing of the invention, to everyone’s regret, mankind could not keep up to the present day.
Trucks was hard to enter the market of cargo, and only in the thirteenth year one thousand nine hundred studies have shown that road freight transport costs six times cheaper cartage. Gradually, the car took on new forms of perfection. For example, Daimler moved powertrain vehicle front part (under the seat) and gave the truck recognizable modern shapes.

Daimler truck

Renowned designer Heinrich Büssing, a German by birth, in 1903, became the founder of the company, which produces trucks and buses, but in 1977, “Büssing” was an offshoot of the corporation MAN, which, in fact, absorbed “Büssing”. The concern MAN entered once known as the Swiss Fima Sauer.
On the development of freight transport by road in the early twentieth century had a strong influence of the Italian company Fiat. During the First World War, production of trucks has increased from 1,400 in 1914 to 17,200 in 1917.

Truck of the early twentieth century

In general, road freight transport could not sufficiently develop during the 1914-1918. Primarily this is due to the fact that different manufacturers of accessories and spare parts were on opposite sides of the armed conflict. Forgotten were the first attempts to create diesel vehicles in 1909. Despite the fact that many factories for the production of trucks were closed and demolished after the war were restored. In the 50 years of the twentieth century, Road freight has become a serious competitor railway and transportation and still have a great impact on the economy as a whole.
Thus, the role of road transport in the system of international exchange of goods hard to overstate. According to statistics, every day cars carrying 70 kg of cargo for each inhabitant of Europe, connecting the entire chain of suppliers and customers around the world and providing a continuous transportation system.